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S. S. Stevens papers, 1934-1981

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Stevens, S. S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973
Title
S. S. Stevens papers
Dates
1934-1981 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.75 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1888
Summary
The Stanley Smith ("Smitty") Stevens papers (1934-1981) contain biographical information, articles, and other publications. He went on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1925-1928 to Belgium and Switzerland. Stevens received a Ph.D. in 1933 from Harvard University. He later became a professor and the director of the psychophysics laboratory at Harvard University.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Stanley Smith ("Smitty") Stevens (1906-1973) was born in Ogden, Utah to Stanley and Adeline Smith Stevens. He went on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1925-1928 to Belgium and Switzerland. He attended the University of Utah, but transferred to Stanford University where in 1931 he received his A. B. degree. Originally pursuing medicine as a career, Stevens was admitted to Harvard Medical School, but he later changed to Psychology. Stevens received a Ph.D. in 1933 from Harvard University. He later became a professor and the director of the psychophysics laboratory at Harvard University.

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Content Description

The Stanley Smith Stevens papers (1934-1981) contain biographical information, articles, and other publications.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Geraldine Stevens in 2001.

Processing Note

Processed by Kate Kimball in 2001.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Biographical Information

    • Description: Autobiographical Essay and Biographical Information
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Articles, A-Z

    • Description: "Adaptation Level vs. The Relativity of Judgment"
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: "The Apparent Reduction of Loudness"
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: "The Attributes of Tones"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: "The Auditory Input-Output Function"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: "The Basis of Psychophysical Judgments"
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: "Binaural Summation of Loudness"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: "Biological Transducers"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
    • Description: "Brightness Function: Effects of Adaptation"
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
    • Description: "Calculating Loudness"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
    • Description: "Calculation of the Loudness of Complex Noise"
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
    • Description: "The Calculation of the Loudness of Noise"
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
    • Description: "Calculating the Perceived Level of Light and Sound"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
    • Description: "Cardiac Acceleration in Emotional Situations"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
    • Description: "A Classification of Scales of Measurement"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 15
    • Description: "Concerning the Form of the Loudness Function"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 1, Folder 16
    • Description: "Concerning the Measurement of Brightness"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 1, Folder 17
    • Description: "Concerning the Psychophysical Power Law"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 1, Folder 18
    • Description: "Cross-Modality Matching of Brightness to Loudness by 5 yr. Olds"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 1, Folder 19
    • Description: "Cross-Modality Validation of Subjective Scales for Loudness, Vibration, and Electric Shock"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 1, Folder 20
    • Description: "Critical Band Width in Loudness Summation"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 1, Folder 21
    • Description: "Decibels of Light and Sound"
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 1, Folder 22
    • Description: "A Demonstration of Positive and Negative Visual After-Images"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 23
    • Description: "The Development of Recorded Auditory Tests for Measuring Loss for Speech"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 1, Folder 24
    • Description: "The Direct Estimation of Sensory Magnitudes--Loudness"
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 1, Folder 25
    • Description: "Duration, Luminance, and the Brightness Exponent"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 1, Folder 26
    • Description: "The Dynamics of Subjective Warmth and Cold"
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 1, Folder 27
    • Description: "Effect of Glare Angle on the Brightness Function for a Small Target"
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 1, Folder 28
    • Description: "The Emotional Responses: Changes of Heart-Rate in a Gun-Shy Dog"
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box 1, Folder 29
    • Description: "The Estimation of Loudness by Unpracticed Observers"
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 1, Folder 30
    • Description: "Factors in the Production of Aural Harmonics and Combination Tones"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 1, Folder 31
    • Description: "Finger Span: Ratio Scale, Category Scale, and Just Noticeable Difference (JND) Scale
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 1, Folder 32
    • Description: "Growth of Sensation on Seven Continua as Measured by Force of Handgrip"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 1, Folder 33
    • Description: Handbook of Experimental Psychology
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 1, Folder 34
    • Description: "To Honor Fechner and Repeal His Law"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 1, Folder 35
    • Description: "Intensity Functions in Sensory Systems"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 1, Folder 36
    • Description: "Introduction: A Definition of Communication"
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 1, Folder 37
    • Description: "Issues in Psychophysical Measurement"
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 1, Folder 38
    • Description: "Is There a Quantal Threshold?"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 1, Folder 39
    • Description: "The Localization of Actual Sources of Sound"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 1, Folder 40
    • Description: "The Localization of Pitch Perception on the Basilar Membrane"
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 1, Folder 41
    • Description: "The Localization of Pure Tones"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 1, Folder 42
    • Description: "Loudness Functions Under Inhibition"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 1, Folder 43
    • Description: "Loudness: A Product of Volume Times Density"
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 1, Folder 44
    • Description: "Loudness, Reciprocality, and Partition Scales"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 1, Folder 45
    • Description: "Machines Cannot Fight Alone"
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 1, Folder 46
    • Description: "The Masking of Pure Tones and of Speech by White Noise"
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 1, Folder 47
    • Description: "Masking and Sensory Dynamics"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 1, Folder 48
    • Description: "The Masking of Speech by Sine Waves, Square Waves, and Regular and Modulated Pulses"
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 1, Folder 49
    • Description: "Matching Functions between Loudness and Ten Other Continua"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 1, Folder 50
    • Description: "Measurement of Auditory Density"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 1, Folder 51
    • Description: "The Measurement of Loudness"
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 1, Folder 52
    • Description: "Measurement and Man"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 1, Folder 53
    • Description: "Measurement, Psychophysics, and Utility"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 1, Folder 54
    • Description: "Measurement and Social Science"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 55
    • Description: "Measurement, Statistics, and the Schemapiric View"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 1, Folder 56
    • Description: "A Mechanical Correlator"
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box 1, Folder 57
    • Description: "The Mechanism of Hearing by Electrical Stimulation"
      Dates: 1939-1940
      Container: Box 1, Folder 58
    • Description: "Methods Measuring Speech Spectra"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 1, Folder 59
    • Description: "A Metric for the Social Consensus"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 1, Folder 60
    • Description: "The NAS- NRC (National Research Council) and Psychology"
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 1, Folder 61
    • Description: "The Nature of Tonal Brightness"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 1, Folder 62
    • Description: "Neural Events and the Psychophysical Law"
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 1, Folder 63
    • Description: "A Neural Quantum in Sensory Discrimination"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 64
    • Description: "The New Harvard Psychological Laboratories"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 1, Folder 65
    • Description: "On the Averaging of Data"
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: "On the Brightness of Lights and the Loudness of Sounds"
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
    • Description: "On the Halving and Doubling the Loudness of White Noise"
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: "On Hearing by Electrical Stimulation"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
    • Description: "On Measurement of Sensation"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: "On the Method of Bisection and its Relation to a Loudness Scale"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
    • Description: "On the Nature of Aural Harmonics"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 2, Folder 7
    • Description: "On the New Psychosis"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 8
    • Description: "On the Operation Known as Judgment"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 9
    • Description: "On the Pitch of Frequency-Modulated Tones"
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box 2, Folder 10
    • Description: "On the Predicting Exponents for Cross-Modality Matches"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 2, Folder 11
    • Description: "On the Problem of Scales for the Measurement of Psychological Magnitudes"
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 2, Folder 12
    • Description: "On the Psychophysical Law"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 2, Folder 13
    • Description: "On the Theory of Scales and Measurement"
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 2, Folder 14
    • Description: "On the Uses of Poidilitic Functions"
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 2, Folder 15
    • Description: "On the Validity of the Loudness Scale"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 2, Folder 16
    • Description: "The Operational Basis of Psychology"
      Container: Box 2, Folder 17
    • Description: "The Operational Definition of Psychological Concepts"
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 2, Folder 18
    • Description: "Operations or Words?"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 19
    • Description: "Perceived Level of Noise by Mark VII and Decibels (E)"
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 2, Folder 20
    • Description: "Perceptual Magnitude and its Measurements"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 2, Folder 21
    • Description: "The Phenomenon of Masking"
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 2, Folder 22
    • Description: "Pitch Discrimination, Mels and Kock's Contention"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 2, Folder 23
    • Description: "Power-Group Transformations Under Glare, Masking, and Recruitment"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 24
    • Description: "Premodulation Clipping in AM Voice Communication"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 2, Folder 25
    • Description: "Problems and Methods of Psychophysics"
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 2, Folder 26
    • Description: "Procedure for Calculating Loudness: Mark VI"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 2, Folder 27
    • Description: "A Psychological Scale of Weight and a Formula for Its Derivation"
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 2, Folder 28
    • Description: "Psychological Writing, Easy and Hard"
      Container: Box 2, Folder 29
    • Description: "Psychology: The Propaedeutic Science"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 2, Folder 30
    • Description: "Psychology and the Science of Science"
      Container: Box 2, Folder 31
    • Description: "Psychophysics and the Measurement of Loudness"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 2, Folder 32
    • Description: "The Psychophysics of Sensory Function"
      Dates: 1960-1961
      Container: Box 2, Folder 33
    • Description: "Psychophysics and Social Scaling"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 2, Folder 34
    • Description: Psychophysics, Review
      Container: Box 2, Folder 35
    • Description: "Psychophysiological Acoustics: Pitch and Loudness"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 2, Folder 36
    • Description: "The Psychophysiology of Hearing"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 2, Folder 37
    • Description: "In Pursuit of the Sensory Law"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 38
    • Description: "The Quantification of Sensation"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 2, Folder 39
    • Description: "The Quantification of Tonal Volume"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 40
    • Description: "Le Quantitatif et La Perception"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 2, Folder 41
    • Description: "Quantifying the Sensory Experience"
      Container: Box 2, Folder 42
    • Description: "The Quantum of Sensory Discrimination"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 2, Folder 43
    • Description: "Ratio Scales and Category Scales for a Dozen Perceptual Continua"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 2, Folder 44
    • Description: "Ratio Scales of Opinion"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 2, Folder 45
    • Description: "Ratio Scales, Partition Scales, and Confusion Scales"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 46
    • Description: "Rectilinear Rectification Applied to Voltage Integration"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 2, Folder 47
    • Description: "Regression Effect in Psychophysical Judgment"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 48
    • Description: "Relation of Brightness to Duration and Luminance under Light and Dark Adaptations"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 2, Folder 49
    • Description: "The Relation of Pitch to Frequency: A Revised Scale"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 2, Folder 50
    • Description: "The Relation of Pitch to Intensity"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 2, Folder 51
    • Description: "The Relation of Saturation to the Size of the Retinal Image"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 2, Folder 52
    • Description: "Review of Das Ohr Als Nachrichtenempfanger"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 2, Folder 53
    • Description: "Saturation of Red: A Prothetic Continuum"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
    • Description: "A Scale of Apparent Intensity of Electric Shock"
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: "A Scale for the Measurement of a Psychological Magnitude: Loudness"
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 3, Folder 3
    • Description: "A Scale for the Measurement of the Psychological Magnitude Pitch"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
    • Description: "Scaling of Apparent Viscosity"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
    • Description: Scaling of Saturation and Hue"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: "The Scaling of Subjective Roughness and Smoothness"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
    • Description: "The Science of Noise"
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 3, Folder 8
    • Description: "Sensory Scales of Taste Intensity"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
    • Description: "Sensory Power Functions and Neural Events"
      Container: Box 3, Folder 10
    • Description: "Sensory Transform Functions"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 3, Folder 11
    • Description: The Ski & Me
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 3, Folder 12
    • Description: "Some Similarities between Hearing and Seeing"
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 3, Folder 13
    • Description: "El Sonido"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 3, Folder 14
    • Description: "Stability of Human Performance under Intense Noise"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 3, Folder 15
    • Description: "Subjective Hardness of Compliant Materials"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 3, Folder 16
    • Description: "Subjective Intensity of Coffee Odor"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 3, Folder 17
    • Description: "Subjective Scaling of Length and Area and the Matching of Length to Loudness and Brightness"
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 3, Folder 18
    • Description: "The Surprising Simplicity of Sensory Metrics"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 3, Folder 19
    • Description: "A Switch for the Presentation of Electrically Generated Tonal Stimuli"
      Container: Box 3, Folder 20
    • Description: "Table Relating Phons and Sones"
      Container: Box 3, Folder 21
    • Description: "Tactile Vibration: Change of Exponent with Frequency"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 3, Folder 22
    • Description: "Tactile Vibration: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 3, Folder 23
    • Description: "Theory of the Neural Quantum in the Discrimination of Loudness and Pitch"
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box 3, Folder 24
    • Description: "Tonal Density"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 3, Folder 25
    • Description: "Toward a Resolution of the Fechner-Thurstone Legacy"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 3, Folder 26
    • Description: "Transfer Functions of the Skin and Muscle Senses"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 3, Folder 27
    • Description: "Vision, Hearing and Aeronautical Design"
      Container: Box 3, Folder 28
    • Description: "Voice Level: Autophonic Scale, Perceived Loudness, and Effects of Sidetone"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 3, Folder 29
    • Description: "The Volume and Intensity of Tones"
      Container: Box 3, Folder 30
    • Description: "Warmth and Cold: Dynamics of Sensory Intensity"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 3, Folder 31
  • General Materials

    • Description: American Psychological Association, "Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
    • Description: Georg von Békésy, "The Ear"
      Container: Box 4, Folder 2
    • Description: Hallowell Davis and Douglas A. Ross, "Selection of Hearing Aids"
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 4, Folder 3
    • Description: Miguelina Guirao, "Perceived Vibration and the Loudness of Low-Frequency Tones"
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 4, Folder 4
    • Description: C. E. M. Hansel, "The Market for Miracles"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 4, Folder 5
    • Description: Robert S. Harper, "The Laboratory of William James"
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 4, Folder 6
    • Description: Edwin B. Newman, "Steven's Operationism"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 4, Folder 7
    • Description: Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, Harvard University, Check-List of Reports
      Dates: 1945-1961
      Container: Box 4, Folder 8
    • Description: Symposium before the American Otological Society, Articles
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box 4, Folder 9
    • Description: USA Standard
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 4, Folder 10
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 4, Folder 11